cypherpunks

cypherpunks, 1 year ago

via the /r/fuckcars thread about this, someone said in February that they were working on submitting a proposal. It appears that the 2022 submissions aren’t on the unicode consortium’s list of proposals yet; hopefully they submitted it!

cypherpunks, 1 year ago

You call that a TTY? This is a TTY:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Telex_machine_ASR-32.jpg/640px-Telex_machine_ASR-32.jpg

smdh at kids today with their fancy emoji-having terminal emulators

cypherpunks, 1 year ago

The current link in this post goes to a year-old story about the online translation feature... here is the same site's coverage of this week's news - which is that there is now offline translation support: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/05/30/firefox-translations-firefoxs-offline-translate-feature-is-making-progress/ (i assume this is what OP actually meant to post). (edit: OP fixed the post's link)

Here is a web page that loads their wasm translation engline and does the actual translation offline (and it does work in the stable release of Firefox). It's irritating that the extension still requires a nightly firefox build, as I'd like to use it in my daily browsing but I don't want to use nightly all the time.

cypherpunks, 2 years ago

There are many types of QR code. iirc a single qrcode can contain up to a few kilobytes, but the more data you put in it the more difficult it will be to scan.

so, you could use qrcodes for offline distribution of short text messages or very low resolution images. I think mobile devices' qrcode scanners will display the contents of TEXT type qrcodes, but they probably don't have support for decoding an image from one (so such an app would need to be written). you can create TEXT type qrcodes using the qrencode tool (packaged in major linux distros) or using websites like https://www.qr-code-generator.com/ (note that I think only their URL and TEXT types are offline; the others upload a file to their servers and make a qrcode containing a URL for it).

This qrcode says "Hello":

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d4c72965-4a37-4df1-a74c-6db9a436674c.png

This qrcode contains this 88x26 pixel (1467 byte) image: https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/16915ea4-6abd-4419-b428-040bbb70b10e.png

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/120fba1c-c957-4636-8add-3d0fd5084aca.png

(created using cat lemmy.png |base64 |qrencode -o lemmy_qr.png; can be decoded using zbarimg lemmy_qr.png |sed 's/QR-Code://'|base64 -d > output.png. on debian/ubuntu you can apt install qrencode zbar-tools to get the two required commands.)

cypherpunks, 1 year ago

…and less than a month later, the new lemmy release allows following peertube channels!

thanks, @nutomic et al!

cypherpunks, 2 years ago

Framework:

• doesn’t offer Linux preinstalled
• doesn’t ship fully assembled laptops without Windows (only the “DIY” edition you must assemble yourself can ship without Windows)
• just now (April 2022, over two years late) finally put up a Linux compatibility page which currently describes Ubuntu 21.10 as "🤔 medium difficulty"
• doesn’t have a free software BIOS or EC firmware

Meanwhile companies like Purism, System76, and Starlabs are shipping modern laptops with various distros preinstalled, never shipping windows, shipping coreboot, and (in the case of the first two, at least, and especially the first) funding the development of free software.

cypherpunks, 2 years ago

<span style="color:#323232;">add = (
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    lambda f: (lambda g: f(lambda *h: g(g)(*h)))(
</span><span style="color:#323232;">               lambda g: f(lambda *h: g(g)(*h))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">)((lambda _add: lambda a, b: _add(a ^ b, c << 1) if (c := a & b) else a ^ b))
</span>

cypherpunks, 2 years ago

It’s nice to see Windows’ decline, but Android being the most popular OS is a bit horrifying. What percentage of Android users are patched against the latest known vulnerabilities? Last I checked, it was a small minority of them.

cypherpunks, 2 years ago

what was /post/1? what are they hiding??